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Author Hurston, Zora Neale, author.

Title Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited by Deborah G. Plant ; [foreword by Alice Walker].

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]

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 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  E444.L49 H87 2018    Available
Edition First edition.
Description xxviii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171).
Contents Foreword : Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief: reading Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo" / by Alice Walker -- Introduction -- Barracoon : Preface -- Introduction -- The king arrives -- Barracoon -- Slavery -- Freedom -- Marriage -- Kossula learns about law -- Alone -- Appendix : Takkoi or Attako: children's game ; Stories Kossula told me ; The monkey and the camel ; Story of de Jonah ; Now disa Abraham fadda de faitful ; The lion woman -- Afterword and additional materials / edited by Deborah G. Plant -- Founders and original residents of Africatown -- Glossary.
Summary "In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past--memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture."--Publisher's website.
Subject Lewis, Cudjo
Clotilda (Ship)
Slaves -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
West Africans -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- Alabama -- Biography.
Slaves -- Alabama -- Biography.
Slave trade -- Alabama -- Mobile -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mobile (Ala.) -- History -- 19th century.
Slave ships -- Alabama.
Slave ships -- Alabama
Lewis, Cudjo.
Clotilda (Ship.)
Slavery -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
West Africans -- United States -- Biography.
Lewis, Cudjo.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional -- African American & Black.
Lewis, Cudjo.
Clotilda (Ship) (OCoLC)fst01663160
Slave ships. (OCoLC)fst01745434
Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Slaves. (OCoLC)fst01120522
West Africans. (OCoLC)fst01173912
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694
Alabama -- Mobile. (OCoLC)fst01206367
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Sklavenhandel
Sklaverei
Westafrikaner
Alabama
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Lewis, Cudjo. (local)tlcaut4183149079492960
Clotilda (Ship) (local)tlcaut4183149401940928
Slaves -- United States -- Biography. (local)tlcaut1438746667101088
West Africans -- United States -- Biography. (local)tlcaut4183150026896176
Slavery -- Alabama -- History. (local)tlcaut1420456473759856
Slave trade -- Africa -- History. (local)tlcaut1467687864927136
Slave trade -- United States. -- History (local)tlcaut1467687864927136
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Plant, Deborah G., 1956- editor.
Walker, Alice, 1944- writer of foreword.
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. WU
Added Title Story of the last "black cargo"
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